M 4.6 in Kuril Islands on 23 Sep 2022 07:08 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1338937
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 59.225 Km
Lat/Lon: 49.7112 , 155.8911
Event Date: 23 Sep 2022 07:08 UTC
23 Sep 2022 17:08 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 23 Sep 2022 07:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000iadj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),